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0. H. COURT & A. J. KLETZKER.

FOUNTAIN PEN. No. 300,224. Patented June 10, 1884.

WITNESSES .iirnrso STATES PATENT M rion,

CHAR-LES l-I. COUR", JERSEY CITY, NEWV JERSEY, AND ALBERT .I. KLETZ- KER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.; SAID COURT ASSIGNOR OF OXEHALF OF HIS RIGHT TO SAID KLETZKER.

FOUNTAIN-PEN.

SPECIPICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 300,224, dated June 10, 1884:. Application filed March 31, 1882. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.- the reservoir, for supplying the ink to the cav Be it known that we, CHARLES COURT, ity and pen. The ink passes from the reserof Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and voir through the said gutter or channel 0 to State of New Jersey, and ALBERT J. KLETZ- the cavity 0, and then passes through the slots KER, of the city, county, and State of New of the pen into the space between the pen and York, have invented a new and Improved the upper surface, a, of the sect-ion B. Asmall Fountain-Pen, of which the following is afull, quantity of inl; being maintained in the cavclear, and exact description. ity c insures a gradual feed, and the upper Our invention relates to that class of fountsurface of the pen being always moist keeps r0 ain-pens in which nib-pens are used, and are the pen ready for instant use.

partly within the reservoir; and it consists, vlj represent the agitator, which in Fig. 1 principally, of the construction, arrangement, is shown located in the pen or point section; and combination of the parts of the pen, all as but it may be placed in the handle A, or it hereinafter fully described and claimed, refmay be attached to the lower end of the de- I 5 erence being had to the accompanying drawtachable tube D. This agitator consists of the ings, in whichballs 1' 2' upon the ends of the wire 6 (or a Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of our new narrow plate may be substituted for the wire,) and improved fountain-pen. Fig. 2 is a dewhich wire passes through a suitable perforatailed plan view of the upper surface and pen, tion, 6, Fig. 3, in the frame or bent sheet- 20 showing the agitator. Fig. 3 is a cross-secmetal plate 70, which bears against the side tion taken on the line was of Fig. 1. Fig. 4is walls of the pen-section or handle portion A,

a sectional elevation taken on the line so a: of as the case may be, with sufficient force to Fig. 2, showing a little more of the pen-stock; hold the agitator in place. The wire j is and Fig. 5 is a section on line y y of Fig. 1. smaller than the perforation in the plate A represents the main handle or barrel of and is of considerable length, so that the agithe pen, which forms the main part of the restator is adapted to have both side and longi- 75 ervoir, and is internally screw-threaded at its tudinal movement for keeping the ink thorends. oughly stirred up and always in proper con- B represents the pen-section, which screws dition for supplying the pen. The tube D,

30 into one end of the handle A, and is hollow, Inadedetachable from the plug C, as shown,

' and completes the reservoir; andG represents is closed at the lower end by the plug 6, and So the plug, which screws into the other end of is perforated above the plug 0 with the hole the handle A, and carries the tube D, and is e. The vertical bore of this tube D coincides adapted to receive the screw-cap E upon its with the passage hthrough the plug 0, as

35 outer end, all as clearly shown in Fig. 1. The shown. In the plug 0 is formed the side paspen-section B is first formed into a cylindrisage, h, which intersects the passage h, and cal tube. Then one side, a, of the lower end this passage h is closed by the screw-cap E. p is pressed in to support the under side of the when the cap E is unscrewed, a supply of air pen I), the other side, a, of the said lower end will pass through the passages 72 and h and 40 of the tube B being formed to support the upthrough the tube 1) and perforation 6 into the per side of the pen. The lower end of each reservoir of the pen, to fill the vacuum formed 0 of these supports ad is shaped somewhat like by the use of the ink.

a pen-point, to retain the ink far down upon The surface aat the back of the pen may be the pen, and the under support, a, is split a indented to form a trough extending a short 5 short distance, as shown at b, Figs. 1 and 4. distance back from the outer end, as shown at The lower face of the lower support, a, is ina if desired, and the support a will by pref- 5 dented toform a cavity for holding a small erence have the short slot 2 in it.

quantity of ink, and with a longitudinal gut- The agitator 13 may extend from the rester or channel, 0", leading from said cavity to ervoir along the top face of the pen-point, the

groove a in the support a being provided to allowone of the balls i to recede when the agitator plays longitudinally.

By this construction of the pen the same is always in condition vfor instant use, and the feed of ink is regulated exactly in accordance with the demandneither too rapid nor too slow-so that the pen is thus made practical for its purposes. Besides, it is cheap of construction and durable.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, Letters Patent, is 4 1. In a fountain-pen, the point-section 13, having its lower end pen-sh aped, and provided with the cavity a on its under side, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a fountain-pen, the combination, with the point-section B, constructed substantially the purposeset forth.'

and desire to secure byas herein shown and descri-bed,of the agita- 2o tor t j, arranged in said section, and having both lateral and longitudinal movement, sub-,

the point-section B, of the plate 70, provided '25 with the aperture 2', and held in said section by its elasticity, and the rod j, provided with the balls as its ends,

substantially as and for 4. The combination, with the upper sup- 0 port, a, of the lower pen-shaped support, a, provided with a split, 1), substantially as shown and described.

' CHARLES H. COURT.

ALBERT J. KLETZKER. Witnesses:

- H. A. WEST,

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